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Employers worry some use caregiver program as front to enter Canada

By: Diana Mehta, The Canadian PressPosted: 02/27/2011 6:02 AM | Comments: 2 | Last Modified: 02/27/2011 11:42 AM TORONTO - Caje Fernandes feels cheated by the system.The father of two preschoolers in Pickering, Ont., was left scrambling for alternatives after the live-in caregiver he sponsored into the country from Hong Kong walked out just three months into her two-year contract.It's not so much the fact she left that irks Fernandes. It's how she did it."She came here with a motive," he says, frustrated. "We were used."